three large navy warships are on their way to help as the pentagon airlifts hundreds of utility workers and their equipment there the west coast to help get a power grid back up and running. david lee miller live from staten island, the area that's been so hard hit. david? >> reporter: jon, many of the people who live here say this is ground zero for the storm damage. take a look here at this marina on the southern shore of staten island, and you can see boat after boat after boat all the way down the street that floated over this fence and landed in the front yard of these homes. some of these won'ts actually float -- boats actually floated halfway up the street here. we'll show you mckee avenue. they floated probably 100 yards if not more. and then there's a utility pole in front of us here, and you can see that it's snapped like a toothpick. and just a few moments ago, jon, one of the residents here told me that looters are stealing gasoline from the boats because gas is in such short supply. they're also looting the electronics from the boats. residents are very rang ri that that --